Background: Buck is your typical vain Flash Gordon kind of guy. He comes from a distant planet that's much like 1930's earth, where he was a pretty good athlete and a bit of a rich boy. His father sent him to a prestigious private school where he studied astronomy and the new experiments in space travel. A series of strange expeditions led to his becoming stranded in Vanth. He sports the uniform from when he enlisted in the "Galaxy Patrol" back on his planet.